Vikas Bhatt Posted September 4, 2012 Posted September 4, 2012 Zaheer is no longer it since a year now after England. he is the new Shoaib Akhter who plays a test then sits out the next due to injury. And unless he stops playing pajama varieties may not be seen again a year later. We are lacking seriously in pace department. Despite MRF academy and NCA we keep getting filler of the month/season bowlers who play a couple of series, get injured, come back as slow bowlers, get pasted and fade out in no time. man, its been 8 years since Irfan Pathan broke in bamboozling Ponting 8 years ago and still isn't anywhere near the team? How time changes. History repeated 5 years later and Ishant Sharma did the same and even he faded out. Whatever happened to all these rans and also rans and still hoping to run guys: Munaf Patel Pankaj Singh R P Singh Sreesanth VRV Singh Ishant Sharma [recovering from knee injury] Ranadeb Bose YoMahesh SS Paul L. Balaji Abid Nabi Where the hell are all these guys and how broke are they now? And who do we have on the horizon to fill the gap? :omg::((:facepalm::punter::idunno:
PaceAttack Posted September 4, 2012 Posted September 4, 2012 new pace bowling hopes? u have mentioned the names who have played in the early 2000s lol, most of them have faded away except Ishant.
Vikas Bhatt Posted September 4, 2012 Author Posted September 4, 2012 new pace bowling hopes? u have mentioned the names who have played in the early 2000s lol' date=' most of them have faded away except Ishant.[/quote'] Thats exactly the point. They continue to be our selectors new hopes depending on who is available 'fit' on a series to series basis. We haven't seen any new promising lad in years now.
Sid Posted September 4, 2012 Posted September 4, 2012 Shib Shankar Paul ,I remember that guy had worse fitness than Munaf :hysterical:
Vikas Bhatt Posted September 4, 2012 Author Posted September 4, 2012 Whatever happened to Harvinder Singh? Never even noticed when he even retired? In the past in the 90s, selectors treated the likes of Debashish Mohanty and Abey Kuruvilla most unfairly.
vamos_rafa Posted September 5, 2012 Posted September 5, 2012 VRV singh posts in ICF these days So does Sreesanth.
maniac Posted September 5, 2012 Posted September 5, 2012 So does Sreesanth. I have seen some posts from Gony as well
jalebi_bhai Posted July 27, 2013 Posted July 27, 2013 I didn't get a chance to fail: Ranadeb Bose Sunday, Jan 6, 2013, 9:30 IST | Place: Mumbai | Agency: DNA Deba Prasad Dhar India's nearly-man Ranadeb Bose has called it a day from first-class cricket. He is now associated with Bangladesh's NCA as coach. Excerpts from an interview to Deba Prasad Dhar. India’s nearly-man Ranadeb Bose has called it a day from first-class cricket. He is now associated with Bangladesh’s NCA as coach. Excerpts from an interview to DNA.. How would you look back on your career? I’m happy I did reasonably well for myself. I made a living from cricket. Everybody has a regret in life — mine is that I didn’t play a Test. I wouldn’t have been hurt had I bowled badly, got hammered, and then not selected. But I didn’t even get a chance to fail. Let’s rewind to India’s 2007 tour of England. You got a five-for against Sri Lanka ‘A’. It was thought you’d play the next Test at the Oval. Was that the closest you came to playing for the country? One bowler on that tour wasn’t playing well. After this game at Leicester, I was given the new ball at the nets, an indication that I might play. Certainly, the vibes were there. The morning before the Test, Rahul Dravid told me India didn’t want to change the combination that had won at Trent Bridge. You ever had hope of an India cap after that? I was still bowling well in domestic cricket. I thought I’d be considered for the next series against Pakistan. Then India travelled to Australia. I knew they would choose five pacers. I was only 27 then. When I wasn’t named in the squad, I knew that was it and I’d never get a look in again. In 2009, India won a rare Test series in New Zealand. Precisely the conditions for your kind of bowling... Absolutely. The selectors were watching a zonal game at the CCI. The squad was yet to be announced. We (East Zone) were playing the West. I got four wickets: Wasim Jaffer, Ajinkya Rahane, Parthiv Patel and Kedar Jadhav. I fancied my chance again. After the match I asked one of the selectors why I had been missing out. He said they were only considering bowlers who could bowl above 140kph. If that was the thought process, I’d nothing to say. Eventually, two bowlers slower than me were chosen for the tour. By the way, not many bowlers from Bengal have taken five wickets consistently against Mumbai and West Zone. You never bowled a no-ball. Share your trade secret... It is an illegal ball. You are not supposed to bowl it in the first place. A good batter doesn’t want to get out even at practice. But bowlers don’t bother to check no-balls at the nets. My coach Gopal Bose would tell me do at the nets what you would in a match. I never bowled at the nets to give practice to batters. I bowled because I was practising myself. I wanted to get them out. And to do that I had to bowl a legal delivery. When did you realise you had to move on? I was 34 and playing on would have been blocking someone’s place. And the state selectors didn’t consider me for Bengal’s ODI side last year. I realised too they were looking ahead. Bengal attack is in good hands. Ashok Dinda (:hehe:), Shami Ahmed and Sourav Sarkar have tremendous future. Bengal only need a good coach and they’ll be right on track. http://www.dnaindia.com/sport/1786060/interview-i-didnt-get-a-chance-to-fail-ranadeb-bose Just remembered this guy out of the blue........LOL......he's training Bangla trundlers nowadays......:giggle:
Crookbond Posted July 27, 2013 Posted July 27, 2013 After the match I asked one of the selectors why I had been missing out. He said they were only considering bowlers who could bowl above 140kph. If that was the thought process, I’d nothing to say. Eventually, two bowlers slower than me were chosen for the tour. :facepalm:
jalebi_bhai Posted July 27, 2013 Posted July 27, 2013 :facepalm: One of them was Dhawal Kulkarni......who was/is faster than this guy was......the other I believe was Munna......:giggle:
Lord Posted July 27, 2013 Posted July 27, 2013 One of them was Dhawal Kulkarni......who was/is faster than this guy was......the other I believe was Munna......:giggle: both were faster than him even then.dunno what hes yapping about
jalebi_bhai Posted July 27, 2013 Posted July 27, 2013 both were faster than him even then.dunno what hes yapping about Bose's style of bowling was hysterical.......:hysterical::hysterical::hysterical:.......seemed very innocuous......
rkt.india Posted July 27, 2013 Posted July 27, 2013 both were faster than him even then.dunno what hes yapping about Kulkarni was slow at that time, used to bowl 120-125K in Ranji trophy. He gained pace in last 2 years as he got better physique wise with gym work. Munaf was quicker. He touched 140 on NZ tour in tests. Balaji and Kulkarni were as quick or slower than Bose at that time. I do think he should played on England tour in place of Sreesanth in third test who was allover the place on that tour bowling beamers, runup problem and bowling big no balls.
saneindian Posted July 27, 2013 Posted July 27, 2013 Poor Ranadeb Bose. I think one of the practice matches on that Eng tour was televised. People could see he couldn't even hit 130s depsite a huge built , a smooth run up, bandana on the head, a nice mullet and a grunt at the time of delivery. That went totally against him and killed his career.
Crookbond Posted July 27, 2013 Posted July 27, 2013 both were faster than him even then.dunno what hes yapping about Yapping? Look up the meaning of that word in a dictionary. Irrespective of whether or not he was fit for the team - Ranadeb is definitely not "yapping". He has put his views across in the best way possible w/o throwing any insults or being aggressive.
Lord Posted July 27, 2013 Posted July 27, 2013 Yapping? Look up the meaning of that word in a dictionary. Irrespective of whether or not he was fit for the team - Ranadeb is definitely not "yapping". He has put his views across in the best way possible w/o throwing any insults or being aggressive. sorry I thought it meant same as whining :P
Crookbond Posted July 27, 2013 Posted July 27, 2013 sorry I thought it meant same as whining :P He's NOT doing that either - he was just answering a question asked by the interviewer. :winky:
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